Homework Help: trig

Posted by Chastity on Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 11:28pm.

A kite is flying overhead at an angle of elevation is 28. If the kite string is 10m long, what is the horizontal that the kite is flying away from you?

trig - Damon, Monday, January 24, 2011 at 5:33am
hypotenuse = 10
10 cos 28 = horizontal leg

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